From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:10:07 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040328211007.GB16537@fencepost> References: <861xnhfee8.fsf@avet.kvota.net> <86brmldvbd.fsf@avet.kvota.net> <20040327001641.GD26429@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080508345 5289 80.91.224.253 (28 Mar 2004 21:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 23:12:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7hZq-0005Ep-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:12:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7hZq-0000I2-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:12:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hZF-00071d-TI for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hYY-0006pv-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hXw-0005pj-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:10:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hXw-0005pB-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B7hXj-0004zI-IG; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:10:07 -0500 Original-To: "Jari Aalto+mail.emacs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21029 On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:02:16PM +0200, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs wrote: > | In any case Jari's comment seems just plainly wrong -- it's _much_ easier > | to type multiple keystroke bindings if all keys in the sequence use the > | same modifier: e.g., to type C-c C-c C-c, just (1) hold down the the > | control key with one finger, and (2) hit `c' three times with the other > | finger. > > This assumes, that one indeed uses two hand on keyboard. > > I use left hand on keyboard and right hand on mouse almost 90 % of the > time. I have found it more efficient and faster. You are an _extremely_ rare case then, I think -- even quite bad typists usually use two hands when necessary to type emacs modifier bindings. To not do so makes _many_ bindings in emacs hard to type. It's obvious that your experience is inappropriate for judging emacs bindings. [Indeed, harmful: what you find good, most people would probably find bad.] -Miles -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)